LACSEF news and important links

It’s almost here! We look forward to seeing all of our student participants, teachers, parents and families on Sunday March 10! Doors open at 10am.


Our LACSEF 2024 Pro­gram & Stu­dent Exhibitors is now avail­able for view­ing or down­load­ing! Just click the cov­er image below or you can access the PDF from the Resources menu at the top of this page!


The Judge’s Sci­ence Fair hand­book is now avail­able HERE or you can access the PDF from the Resources menu at the top of this page!



Call for Science Fair judges!

Would you please con­sid­er vol­un­teer­ing your time as a judge for the 74th Annu­al Los Ange­les Coun­ty Sci­ence & Engi­neer­ing Fair (LACSEF)? As you may already know, LACSEF is the longest run­ning and one of the largest Sci­ence Fairs in the nation! We are proud to say that we did this with­out a break even dur­ing the COVID-19 pan­dem­ic when most oth­er fairs were can­celled at least for a year. LACSEF is a 100% vol­un­teer run orga­ni­za­tion and we depend on indi­vid­u­als like you to cre­ate this invalu­able oppor­tu­ni­ty for our bud­ding stu­dent sci­en­tists. Stu­dents’ inter­ac­tion with the judges is the sin­gle most mem­o­rable expe­ri­ence for these young sci­en­tists! It is also a very reward­ing expe­ri­ence for the judges! Judg­ing will take place on Mon­day, March 11, 2024. There are 36 cat­e­gories for stu­dent exhibits, Junior or Senior Divi­sion. Judges are pro­vid­ed with all nec­es­sary mate­ri­als, and there is a Chair­per­son for each cat­e­go­ry to help facil­i­tate the process and answer ques­tions. Click here for more details on how to reg­is­ter as a judge.


The 2024 Science Fair T‑shirts are here! Order now!

Get them while they’re hot off the loom! Los Ange­les Coun­ty Sci­ence and Engi­neer­ing Fair T‑Shirts and sweat­shirts are avail­able for purchase. They have a very cool stu­dent-designed Fair logo on the back. Dead­line to order and receive by the start of the Fair is FRIDAY FEBRUARY 16! You can see and pur­chase them in a wide vari­ety of col­ors and styles (includ­ing hood­ies) at the fol­low­ing link:

https://www.bonfire.com/los-angeles-county-science-amp-engineering-fair/


Calling all Science Fair volunteers!

It is the pol­i­cy of the Los Ange­les Coun­ty Sci­ence and Engi­neer­ing Fair that each par­tic­i­pat­ing school must pro­vide adult vol­un­teers (18 years or old­er) to work for a min­i­mum of two & a half hours (prefer­ably more) dur­ing the course of the Sci­ence Fair. Vol­un­teers a

re not restrict­ed to only teach­ers or par­ents. Vol­un­teers can also be fam­i­ly mem­bers, busi­ness asso­ciates, neigh­bors or friends.

The required num­ber of adult vol­un­teers is deter­mined by the num­ber of stu­dent entries from your par­tic­u­lar school. The break­down is as follows:

1 to 6 Projects = 1 Vol­un­teers 7 to 13 Projects = 2 Volunteers

Please vis­it our Vol­un­teer page here and fol­low the direc­tions that pro­vide step-by-step instruc­tions for the online vol­un­teer reg­is­tra­tion process. After you reg­is­ter, you will receive your pass­word in email. When you go online to vol­un­teer, you can select the date, time block, and par­tic­u­lar task you are com­fort­able vol­un­teer­ing for. Vol­un­teer Online Reg­is­tra­tion can be accessed at:

http://app.lascifair.org/

Please make sure to select a date, time and task oth­er­wise your school will not get cred­it for your vol­un­teer­ing as your reg­is­tra­tion will be incom­plete. You will receive an email con­fir­ma­tion of your selection(s), as well as a pass­word that can be used along with your email to log back into the online reg­is­tra­tion sys­tem to make any revi­sions. Please be aware that should the num­ber of vol­un­teers exceed a par­tic­u­lar task require­ment, it may be nec­es­sary for the Vol­un­teer Coor­di­na­tor to adjust assign­ments. If you vol­un­teer to help at the Awards Pro­gram, 2 seats will be saved for you and you may return to your seat while your stu­dent is on stage.

Please com­plete the online reg­is­tra­tion process by Fri­day, Feb­ru­ary 23, 2024!

Vol­un­teers will receive final con­fir­ma­tion and any addi­tion­al infor­ma­tion via email the week pri­or to the Sci­ence Fair, sched­uled for March 10–11, 2024, at Shrine Expo Hall. Please note that at this time the Sci­ence Fair will not val­i­date park­ing for vol­un­teers. Park­ing infor­ma­tion will be sent out with the final email con­fir­ma­tion pri­or to the Fair.


Congratulations LACSEF participants at the 2023 ISEF!

The Los Ange­les Coun­ty Sci­ence & Engi­neer­ing Fair (LACSEF) is proud of the achieve­ments of our stu­dents dur­ing the 2023 Regen­eron Inter­na­tion­al Sci­ence and Engi­neer­ing Fair (ISEF), held May 14 — 19, 2023 in Dal­las, Texas. The com­pe­ti­tion fea­tured over 1,600 young sci­en­tists rep­re­sent­ing 49 states and 64 coun­tries across the world.

Two projects cho­sen to rep­re­sent LACSEF and eight stu­dents who rep­re­sent­ed  Palos Verdes Penin­su­la School Dis­trict were among the finalists. 

Sehoon Kang and Zhe­hao Zhang from the Webb School of Cal­i­for­nia received a Grand Award in the “Chem­istry” cat­e­go­ry for their project, “Con­ver­sion of Car­bon Diox­ide to Ver­sa­tile Green Chem­i­cals With Isoretic­u­lar Met­al-Organ­ic Frameworks.”
https://tinyurl.com/mpcnz2ft

Mahesh Arunacha­lam from Cres­cen­ta Val­ley High School was a final­ist in the “Trans­la­tion­al Med­ical Sci­ence” cat­e­go­ry for his project, “New Gen­er­a­tion Drug Devel­op­ment Pipeline From in sil­i­co Iden­ti­fi­ca­tion to Pre­clin­i­cal Eval­u­a­tion for Nov­el Drug Can­di­dates in Glioblastoma.”
https://tinyurl.com/mryvmwxe

Anna Peti-Peter­er­di, Lena Pereszte­gi and Daniel Pereszte­gi from Palos Verdes High School received a Grand Award in the “Cel­lu­lar and Mol­e­c­u­lar Biol­o­gy” cat­e­go­ry for their project, “Bio­plant.”
https://tinyurl.com/52zs6fr8

William Huang from Palos Verdes Penin­su­la High School was a final­ist in the “Sys­tems Soft­ware” cat­e­go­ry for his project, “Super­hu­man Bion­ic Eyes for the Blind.”
https://tinyurl.com/mjsfrwck

Justin Liu from Palos Verdes Penin­su­la High School received a Grand Award in the “Robot­ics and Intel­li­gent Machines” cat­e­go­ry for his project, “Super-Res­o­lu­tion AI Engine for Blind­ness Detection.”

https://tinyurl.com/mk5y7afs

Chris­tine Xie from Palos Verdes High School was a final­ist in the “Bio­med­ical Engi­neer­ing” cat­e­go­ry for her project, “Pre-Vas­cu­lar­ized Bio­ma­te­r­i­al for Stroke.”
https://tinyurl.com/c9utfffb

Anish Anand from Palos Verdes Penin­su­la High School was a final­ist in the cat­e­go­ry “Engi­neer­ing Tech­nol­o­gy”: Sta­tis­tics & Dynam­ics for his project “Nov­el Con­trol Sys­tem for Quadcopters.”
https://tinyurl.com/h29ew7np

Andreas John Tem­pereau from Palos Verdes High School was a final­ist in the cat­e­go­ry “Robot­ics and Intel­li­gent Machines”: for his project “Con­struct­ing an Auto­mat­ic CPR Machine Gen 2.0”
https://tinyurl.com/4x33svyb

We are so proud of these stu­dents’ achievements!


Watch the 2023 Awards Ceremony!
The 2023 Los Angeles County Science & Engineering Fair was a great success! Almost 500 projects were entered and judged. Watch on our YouTube page or right here on the LACSEF website home page. Thanks to everyone–students, parents, teachers, judges, volunteers, donors and staff for making this first in-person Fair following COVID such a wonderful event for all!


The 2023 Category award results can be found under the In the News menu or by clicking here

Special Award winners can be viewed/downloaded here

The 2023 Program & Student Exhibitors PDF is available here or from the In the News menu. 


It’s official! The 73rd Annual LA County Science & Engineering Fair is in the books.  Our new location was the Shrine Expo Hall, across the street from USC, a central location for all schools and a classic venue. See you there next year!

 


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We are a 501(c)(3) all-vol­un­teer orga­ni­za­tion and must rely on dona­tions to be able to hold our annu­al event. Please con­sid­er donat­ing to ensure that our Fair continues.